Foraging behaviour of beef heifers and ewes in natural grasslands with distinct proportions of tussocks

Authors: Carolina Bremm, Emilio Andrés Laca, Lidiane Fonseca, Jean Carlos Mezzalira, Denise Adelaide Gomes Elejalde, Horacio Leandro Gonda, Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: eragrostis plana nees, grazing behaviour, mosaic grassland, percentage of tussock cover, short-term intake rate

2012

A case of non-scaling in mammalian physiology? Body size, digestive capacity, food intake, and ingesta passage in mammalian herbivores☆

Authors: Marcus Clauss, Angela Schwarm, Sylvia Ortmann, W. Jürgen Streich, Jürgen Hummel

Publication/Journal: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology

Keywords: body size, browser, coprophagy, digestive anatomy, digestive physiology, foregut fermenter, grazer, herbivory, hindgut fermenter, ingesta retention, ruminant

2007

Breathing frequency in ruminants: a comparative analysis with non-ruminant mammals

Authors: J. Mortola, C. Lanthier

Publication/Journal: Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology

Keywords: allometry, bovidae, breathing pattern, camelidae, cervidae, control of breathing, giraffidae

2005

Metabolism and thermoregulation during fasting in king penguins, Aptenodytes patagonicus, in air and water

Authors: A. Fahlman, A. Schmidt, Y. Handrich, A.J. Woakes, P.J. Butler

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Physiology Regulatory, Integrative and Comaparative Physiology

Keywords: allometry, aptenodytes patagonicus, hypometabolism, king penguin, metabolism, penguin, sea bird, thermoregulation, thermoregulatory plasticity

2005

Determinants of Home Range Size for Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus)

Authors: S.H. Ferguson, M.K. Taylor, E.W. Born, A. Rosing-Asvid, F. Messier

Publication/Journal: Ecology Letters

Keywords: allometry, arctic, body size, home range, polar bears, predictability, sea ice, seasonality, ursus maritimus, variation

1999

The scaling of eye size with body mass in birds

Authors: M. de L. Brooke, S. Hanley, S. B. Laughlin

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Keywords: allometry, body-mass, eye, flight speed, resolution, visual ecology

1999

Allometry and ecology of feeding behavior and digestive capacity in herbivores: A review

Authors: Peter J. Van Soest

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: digestion, feeding behavior, herbivores

1996